hant
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.34 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
contraction
Pronunciation spelling of hadn’t.
Example Sentences
- "“[…] Say, Mister, did you ever see a hant?” The gentleman did not understand. “A hant, a ghost, some calls ’em,” explained Jed."
- "[…] he shivered as though a hant had touched him with its ghostly fingers, for night was near and he was alone in a depth of the swamp where he had never been before."
- "The term “hant” covers all malevolent and inexplicable sights and sounds. Primarily hants protect buried treasure and linger about ghoulish death spots."
- "Naturally, I believed in hants and ghosts and “thangs.” Having been raised by a super-religious Southern Negro grandmother, it would have been abnormal had I not been superstitious."
Etymology
Usage
- American usage
- Colloquial